How come nobody is brining up the scenario of Phil felling Melo...gimme a second while I move some contracts...and sign?? Supposedly Melo loved the vision of Phil...we all know Melo doesn't want to wait to 2015...he wants to compete now...and also like the plan Phil had for 2015...maybe Phil told him to pump his brakes on signing until he can move stag or barge? Could this be the hold up?? More than likely Melo is waiting for the other chips to fall in free agency...but its just a thought. Phil is always ahead of the game...nobody knew he had a bargs trade on the table...nobody also knew he had the Tyson felton deal on the table...its a possibility.

I think the hold up is Phil trying to move those contracts. If melo resigns before they move them then it lessens the space. Especially if LeBron goes to Cleveland and then they trade Andrew Wiggins for a kevin love or someone of the caliber

I wonder if the holdup is that the Knicks want to complete an Amar'e trade first. I'm pretty sure Melo's cap hold is less than he would be earning in a new deal. That extra couple million could help the Knicks get under the apron, and offer Gasol the full MLE or workout a sign and trade. If Melo was going to sign with the Lakers, I don't see why it would take this long.

The writing is in the walls Melo and LeBron will play together. Question is where. If Melo does leave I wouldn't mind us developing our young core while building a team under Phil who I believe knows how to put a team together.

maybe the Knicks have publicly claimed to have offered Melo the max but behind closed doors are actually trying to get Melo to take a pay cut and Melo stalling and talking to the lakers is all just a way to get the full max or at east more than Phil wants him to take

@orlando_knickfan "Obvious". What you mean to say is that you assume he doesn't want to be here. You actually have no idea if he wants to be here or not and nothing about this situation is obvious other than that it's taking too long for impatient fans (of which I'm one). People see no answers and so they start making up answers that fit whatever their chosen narrative is because impatience hates a vacuum.

@OLDKNICK Others are free to disagree, but I personally don't believe it's in Melo's makeup to do that. I think he enjoys being "the man" (which he wouldn't be in Miami with LeBron); and I also don't see him forfeiting the 129 mil when all is said and done.

@OLDKNICK nope, if I knew I were going to stay in NY, I knew since the day I was born in NY, unless I'm venturing off to find treasure in another land, but I know it doesn't matter how far you go, the treasure can be found right in your own backyard - learned this from reading Paolo Coelho's Alchemist

@OLDKNICK I guess, but he hasn't said yes to the Lakers either. All that was being reported yesterday was L.A.'s " surge to the top" of Melo's list. What happened with that today? They have no idea what's going on either; neither does Chicago. Insofar as we know, Melo hasn't even reached out to Houston or Dallas, teams that everybody else seems to be writing off.

These guys are in another world. There's all kind of stuff going on that we may have no idea about.. Anything we surmise at this point is nothing but conjecture.

@Geo Santistevan I guarantee someone right now is looking to see if Lebron or Melo liked this on instagram. Then Broussard would post his sources are saying that Pau is leaning towards with LeBron/Melo